We never got sight of her." "Then you must have been asleep," cried the lieutenant angrily.

"There, breakfast, my lads, and be smart." After the meal, Gurr was left in the charge of the cutter, while the lieutenant accompanied Archy to search for the high cliff which contained the old quarry, and they rowed east for a couple of miles in vain.

But, after pulling back to the starting-point, and making for the other direction, they had not gone four hundred yards under the cliff before the midshipman exclaimed excitedly,-- "There; that's the place: there!" "Then why didn't you say so when we were on deck?
You could have seen it there." "I could not tell without seeing it close in, sir; and besides it looks so different from right out yonder." "But are you sure this is right ?" "Oh yes, sir.

Look, that's the place--where there is that narrow rift, and if you look high up there is a hole.

There, I can see it plainly." "Humph! Can you?
Well, I cannot!" "But you can see that broad ledge, sir, about two hundred feet up.
That's where I climbed down to, and we had the struggle--that boy and I." "No, I can't see any ledges, Mr Raystoke.